Signal Lost — Diagnosing a Dark Wireless Adapter

Cedarhollow Public Library · IT student aide bench · subnet 10.40.12.0/24
N10-009 · 5.1 N10-009 · 5.5 APNET · 1.1 APNET · 1.2

Scenario

You volunteer as the student tech aide at the Cedarhollow Public Library. Staff connect their machines to the WPA3 network CedarNet-Staff; patrons use CedarNet-Public. This morning the roving inventory laptop SHELF-SCAN-2 (used to scan barcodes around the Reading Room) won't get online — the librarian says "it can't even see any Wi-Fi." The circulation desk PC CIRC-DESK-1 is reportedly fine. Work the structured troubleshooting method: establish a known-good baseline, isolate the fault, find the root cause, fix it, then verify.

Bench · Devices

Wi-Fi
Chassis edge · physical Wi-Fi radio switch
OFFON
Radio OFF
AdapterWi-Fi (802.11ax)
RadioOff (hardware switch)
StateDisconnected
SSID
IPv4 (DHCP)
Cedarhollow bench console. Type help and press Enter.
SHELF-SCAN-2>

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